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Cake of Mille Fruits Take 6 oz of sweet Almonds chopped very fine, 9 ozs of sugar, 9 ozs of flour 9 ozs of butter, (the Butter must be worked to a cream), 9 yolks & 3 whole eggs - the rind of 2 Oranges or Lemons, & a pinch of salt, beat the Eggs & sugar for 1/2 an hour, butter a tin baking sheet, and spread the cake 1/2 an inch thick - 6 of those layers will do for a cake - you dish them one upon another with preserves between, such as Apricots, raspberrie's &c &c, and it is covered with Glaize Royal - To make Glaize Royal stable spoonsfull of sugar sifted fine, mix with the juice of a lemon and a little water & colour with a little Cochineal, spread it on the cake with a Knife, and as it rans off keep laying it on till it sets - Ornament the top - [Ioik?] wash the shape getting it narrower to the top - To pickle Cucumbers Tayler Take the smallest and freest from spots, put them in strong salt and eater, for 10 days or till quite yellow, and stir them 2 or 3 times a day, when yellow take them from the water and cover them with plenty of vine leaves - boil the water and pour it on them and as the water cools boil it again and continue to do so till they are a
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Cake of Mille Fruits Take 6 oz of sweet Almonds chopped very fine, 9 ozs of sugar, 9 ozs of flour 9 ozs of butter, (the Butter must be worked to a cream), 9 yolks & 3 whole eggs - the rind of 2 Oranges or Lemons, & a pinch of salt, beat the Eggs & sugar for 1/2 an hour, butter a tin baking sheet, and spread the cake 1/2 an inch thick - 6 of those layers will do for a cake - you dish them one upon another with preserves between, such as Apricots, raspberrie's &c &c, and it is covered with Glaize Royal - To make Glaize Royal stable spoonsfull of sugar sifted fine, mix with the juice of a lemon and a little water & colour with a little Cochineal, spread it on the cake with a Knife, and as it rans off keep laying it on till it sets - Ornament the top - [Ioik?] wash the shape getting it narrower to the top - To pickle Cucumbers Tayler Take the smallest and freest from spots, put them in strong salt and eater, for 10 days or till quite yellow, and stir them 2 or 3 times a day, when yellow take them from the water and cover them with plenty of vine leaves - boil the water and pour it on them and as the water cools boil it again and continue to do so till they are a
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